The wandering mind : what medieval monks tell us about distraction /

"A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"--

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Main Author: Kreiner, Jamie, 1982- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923, [2023].

Edition: First edition.

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Call Number: BR195 .D57 K74 2023

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100 1 |a Kreiner, Jamie,  |d 1982-  |e author 
245 1 4 |a The wandering mind :   |b what medieval monks tell us about distraction /   |c Jamie Kreiner. 
250 |a First edition. 
264 1 |a New York, NY :  |b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923,  |c [2023]. 
300 |a 274 pages :   |b illustrations, maps ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a "A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
650 0 |a Distraction (Psychology)  |x Religious aspects  |x Christianity  |x History  |y To 1500. 
650 0 |a Monasticism and religious orders  |x History  |y Early church, ca. 30-600. 
650 0 |a Monasticism and religious orders  |x History  |y Middle Ages, 600-1500. 
901 |a reviewed 
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